There probably is a clever way that you could do it, but clever ways are easy to overstep, misconfigure and can be unreliable long-term.

Congratulations, now your „password” (the 512-byte random key file) is stored as plaintext on your machine :)

With rate-limiting, non-trivial passwords are not viable to be brute-forced, so making them larger just doesn’t give you much.

I’m running ZFS mirror on Ubuntu on a USFF machine with 2 external USB 2.5’’ drives. I do weekly scrubs, never lost any data even during power loss. Some of the 2.5’’ USB drivers are crap, I had to replace drive 2 times over last 5 years - while one of the drives is with me since the beginning.

I would say that a lot of people over-secure their local home file storage. If you use filesystem (or software) that does checksumming, your home data will be safe. Yeah, in case of power loss you may lose like 2s of last writes on ext4, and that won’t matter much for majority of people because it’s not like it’s your company’s only copy of internal data.

AGPL means they are licensing it to you, they are not bound by the license because they are the copyright owners.

No.

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No, it should work out of the box through the open source driver. But, for most people the Nvidia driver (closed) works without issues, you need to install it through driver manager app.

What folder did you run it in?

As @Strit wrote, use sudo, as docker keeps its container, image and volume files under /var/lib/docker, and that folder is not readable without sudo (or root).

You know that you can change license of software that you own copyright to? You can take GPL code and change it to something else, but you can’t un-GPL existing released code. It’s the same thing with MIT.

The only people bound by the license are people who use it because it is licensed to them.

The difference is that organisation may develop MIT software without publishing their code.

It should be called „me being patronising to other people”. Kinda „I am so smart” material.

No, it has not „always been fine” - I’ve worked with people who disabled auto updates on their dev machines just to keep a specific kernel & driver version working together. Circa 2016 :)

Some countries have pretty strict laws about not promoting Nazi ideology - by pushing that notifications it would probably be breaking that law.

Stolen? It was forked as is allowed by the MIT license. With GPL as well there is no „you cannot fork” rule, you can do exactly the same thing. The author misunderstood that „you have to push the changes to upstream”, which is not in any of those licenses.

I have earlier gen and it’s kinda underpowered and undercooled. Sawzall mod should help, but I’d look for results before attempting that.

Open the disks, take the platters out, you can smash them. Or, if you’ve been naughty, you can borrow a belt sander and sand them down to naught.

I’ve looked at the sources of this paper, and it looks like the grams of CO2 per email are taken out of the ass, as it’s just a random value in „SAMRIDDHI Volume 15, Issue 1, 2023 Print ISSN: 2229-7111 Online ISSN: 2454-5767 Survey on Carbon Dioxide Emissions Through Email Conversion”